wenlan

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A living personal knowledge library for the AI-native age, built by your agents and grounded in its sources.

Unlike a normal llm-wiki that generates pages from a fixed document set, Wenlan keeps a source-cited wiki current with live agent work and trusted sources. It is built for long-running work with AI agents, from software development and research to writing, consulting, product decisions, and client work.

Your agents capture what they learn during sessions, you add pages and sources you already trust, and Wenlan distills both into Markdown pages that refresh between sessions. Each new thread starts from that updated wiki, with a brief to bring context forward and a handoff to record where the work should continue.

Wenlan (文瀾) takes its name from 文瀾閣. The imperial library held 四庫全書 as part of one of China's largest book collections.

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Start with the app

The desktop app is the fastest way to read and curate your source-cited wiki. Agents keep capturing and recalling context in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Desktop, or any MCP client, and every path talks to the same local daemon and Markdown store.

Set up Wenlan once:

npx -y wenlan setup

Then open the desktop app releases page and download the latest macOS Apple Silicon DMG: wenlan-app releases.

App source: wenlan-app. Product details: wenlan.app.

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What makes Wenlan distinct

1. Trustworthy sources. Every page cites the memories behind it, and Wenlan refuses unsourced pages rather than letting hallucinated summaries in. It dedupes facts and supersedes old versions when facts change, so the wiki stays clean without turning daily capture into an approval queue.
2. Current between sessions. Wenlan clusters new captures into source-cited pages between sessions, and feeds retrieval with both the pages and the atomic notes behind them. The wiki reflects your latest work instead of a stale snapshot.
3. One home, locked to none. Every MCP client queries the same local daemon, so context built in one tool shows up in the next. Obsidian is one optional view you can symlink in, not where your work lives.
4. Real git versioning. Memory, page, and session writes commit into ~/.wenlan/.git/, so you can inspect, diff, revert, or branch the Markdown artifacts.

   a1b2c3d page: embedding-retrieval refreshed (4 sources)
   9f8e7d6 session: handoff embedding-work
   5a4b3c2 capture: decision mem_abc123
   

The short reel below shows the product loop: source-backed pages, source cards, graph structure, agent capture, and curation before recall.

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Quickstart

Claude Code in 30 seconds

/plugin marketplace add 7xuanlu/wenlan
/plugin install wenlan@7xuanlu-wenlan
/setup

If Claude Code asks for a restart after installing, restart once, then run /setup. The plugin handles local runtime setup, MCP wiring, local memory setup, and the first round-trip check.